Google nexus 7 review part Zwei:A $159 Windows 8 Pro tablet able to play the likes of Diablo III,Starcraft 2,Max Payne 3,Sins and Flash as fast your desktop

My nexus 7 is currently running Windows 8 Release Preview, using Splashtop HD.

In just a few seconds after installing Splashtop streamer on my laptop and purchasing the Splashtop HD app for Android I am using the most gorgeous 7 inch 384g Tegra 3 12 core GPU powered Windows 8 pro tablet  at a total cost of $159, no need to lust after those yet to be released surfaces  and no need to compromise with ARM and RT when you can have the full Windows 8 Pro experience ( here represented by the Release Preview).  


With Windows 8 Hand writing recognition I can test the finesse of the nexus 7 touch screen. And as you can see it copes with my insanely bad hand writing quite well : 

then we can start using all the toys in Windows 8 ,panes ,charms and desktop 

On our nexus 7  Windows 8 RP  tablet we can open Metro apps whilst opening other apps , take advantage of  real browsing with full java flash and even silverlight as you can see below all in the palm of one hand ...

Your google nexus 7 Windows 8 RP tablet is of course capable of far more than playing simple App or Flash games so let's begin by playing some Max Payne 3 straight of Steam :

or those perennial Blizzard favourites : Diablo III 

which plays like this 

and Starcraft 2 : 

which plays like this 

Warcraft to follow ! but for now let us indulge in a little nostalgia , with The Secret of Monkey Island , here running in a Chrome browser , this is Dos Box but not as you know it , the game being streamed within the stream of Windows 8 that is being streamed using Splashtop to the nexus 7 ! Still with me?  Well playing Dos games in a browser this way does away with the need to download a dos app or to worry about side loading roms . 

Naclbox is still in its infancy but has come a long way running in Chrome and as a Chrome Store App both of which options you can indulge in when streaming Windows 8 on your nexus 7 using Splashtop. 


Now let us move on to another of the PCs finest Sins of A Solar Empire Rebellion : I have never seen this game look so cool as it does streamed to the nexus 7 : And consider you can play this on larger tablets but the weight gets you after a while, the 7 inch screen of the google device is perfect for this game check out some shots and much video below as I come to grips with the interface : 

My Windows 8 tablets are many as you can tell by my coverage of Windows 8 since the first preview was released last November within hours I had it insalled and running on Atom , i5 , i7 , dual 7 inch and 14 inch tablets used as surface computers months before the big M came up with the term ( or not ) but none of these devices looks as cool as the google nexus 7 with its feather weight , and high res screen. 


As your hardware say your desktop , laptop or even Windows 8 surface is doing the grunt work the device you are actually using the nexus 7 remains amazingly cool in your hands . 


Most people including very highly praised pundits at Apple Google and Microsoft probably still see the tablet form factor as a walled garden app delivery device , I know I and others used to rage about that in the days of iPad and when Steve was still physically amongst us . Today though your first use of of any iOS or Android tablet may be in fact be to stream a full OS by passing all the walled gardens altogether and what is more the likes of Apple , Google and Microsoft are reaping benefits ,so if you are a long time Windows soon to be Windows 8 fan , there is nothing stopping you running the full OS streamed on your iOS or Android device.  Nothing to root , nothing to hack no dodgy side loading app stores , it is all official and simple. 

I firmly believe that the physical desktop and the traditional gaming console as a form factor are dead  and the arrival of the Google Nexus 7 is just another nail in the Lian Li Pc Armorsuit  coffin of my desktop.  Very soon we will just lease server time , streaming to tablets like the nexus 7 irrespective of OS and so it is that my favourite  Windows 8 machine is actually an Android Jelly Bean tablet , the only one that I can hold in one hand by the way...

Thanks to the cloud we already game on PC using onlive , we are expecting to on consoles and tablets and phones and store and stream most of our data and media in the cloud. 


For now streaming in this way we may be tethered to our laptops or even desktops but thanks to the progress made by the likes of Splashtop , the ever expanding cloud ,faster wifi and tiny actually portable tablets like the nexus 7 that tether grows weaker every day.


Windows 9 and OSX puddytat may just be the first OS release that require no hardware on your part , you just stream from Apple or Microsoft's server farms to whatever generation of iPad , Android or Surface tablet  your have lying about ....  


More Google nexus 7 usage to follow ....



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Google nexus 7 review part I : Installing Flash , Playing LA Noire onlive,browser gaming multitasking and gettng the box open

You nexus 7 ?... I do your eyes... 

And so it came to pass, a nondescript bubble envelope was signed for on delivery and opening it revealed my first Android tablet. With extensive experience of opening elegantly boxed and fragrenced joojoos,iOS and Windows 8 tablets  I launched straight into opening the box. but as if to mock my lack of Android experience the nexus 7 did not want to come out and play :

Happily I got there in the end and this  is being typed using the official blogger app , which appears to be far better suited to the nexus 7 than the scaled up phone version on the new iPad. In fact the iPad was designated to filming duty, so I am using Android and iOS to create this post before adding the finishing touches using a Windows 8 tablet. My desktop has most verily been retired, holding the nexus is a joy compared to heavier larger and extremely hotter rivals. Typing and speaking this in portrait is super fast and I am not even looking down at the keyboard as the text is corrected on the fly by the blogger app.

The text entry is amazingly accurate, better than iOS and more accurate than the release preview Windows 8. Correction on the fly is also far cooler than the iOS equivalent which throws up a suggestion underneath your mistyped word always at the wrong time!

The form factor is really what makes this a joy to use, the blogger app just looks perfect in portrait on a 7 inch display, sorry Steve you were wrong the text is razor sharp, reads just the right length across the screen, i.e. exactly the same length as the keyboard which sits beneath and with which I am practically touch typing on my first go and hey if you want just speak and the words will be typed for you. I do miss the Windows 8 hand writing recognition though speed of typing on the jellybean nexus 7 more than makes up for that.. but we will tackle Windows 8 on the nexus 7 in part 2 of my review..



The iPad is great but currently has had one app that I crave placed in purgatory since the first gen iPad. Unlike Apple ,Google have allowed the release of this app, which of course is onlive. You may ask yourself if a tablet with just 2.4ghz N wifi can handle onlive, when over on PCs and laptops you really need wired or 5ghz to keep your cloud gaming session going. Well the answer is it works and here is some proof. Me playing LA Noire over 13 minutes or so without a single drop in connect ion or lag. The video will also show you ,multi tasking , fast switching between apps and a surprise for me that Sarien.net works through the Chrome browser. 

I also  installed flash 11 apk ( yes I know)  and it works with the Firefox beta, no rooting required and I also used some of my £15 allowance to splash out on Splashtop HD  to stream PC games and more importantly Windows 8. On Android Splashtop has yet to hit version 2 but owners of the HD and first version will get an automatic upgrade when it releases.



The heat is none....oh ee wu ho ...the heat is...none!
I have been using the nexus 7 all day and this device goes nowhere near the egg frying temperature of my new iPad , the red hot Al case of which has the added benefit of autoclaving my hands and throws in the odd static shock to wake me up when I am nodding off ... In fact the only heat I detected over the two days I have used it is from my own hand holding it , this coming from the sun melting heat of the Tosh Libretto or the static shock and heat of the iPad is awesome and probably has something to do with the fact that putting a rubber back on your tablet gives said tablet neither the propensity to conduct heat nor to statically shock you from time to time...


More testing to follow, these are just my first impressions the knee jerk in gut first satiating acts for cravings of a long term iPad owner, feeling the the need the need for Flash, playing full cloud games ( onlive ) and checking out what Windows 8 Pro will be like on a 7 inch 384 gram Tegra 3 12 core GPU tablet ..


The Google nexus 7 is a winner, costing less than some cases and accessories for your iPad .Even if you have an iPad and Windows 8 tablets the Google Nexus 7 will find its own place on your tablet life, because the light weight ,development community and unique 7 inch high res form factor make it unique. Android is alive and kicking and the only valid reason for you not owning one right now is that they are out of stock. 


With established players in the tablet space, in your tablet space, the time for platform rivalry is over. In writing this article I used an iOS device the new iPad to film, take pictures and upload that data to apps which are universal across iOS, Android and Windows 8 or even at a browser level. I used an Android device the nexus 7 to check up on my uploads to youtube and Google plus and to type most of this entry, I then used a Windows 8 tablet to finish the whole thing off, suddenly I have 3 times the screen real estate and real multicore parallel hardware and software computing multitasking power  far more than I used to have with my leviathan desktop whose monitor is cooking my face as I type this ... Synergy, grown up attitudes in sharing apps across platforms, is what separates and elevates the computer industry from the console games industry which is rapidly failing. 


The cloud and cross platform, cross browser and cross OS applications are the enablers and they thought it would be java ? Today we use Mac software on PCs, Windows 8 tablets , Google apps on iOS devices and every body benefits not least you and me.  So the arrival of the nexus 7 is not just another chapter in the tablet war it is actually the point where all these devices, the software and hardware that drives them start to work together and change the way we work and play ...and what better way to illustrate this than to check out Windows 8 on the Google nexus 7  ..which will form part 2 of my review...


Coming right up after I solve this pesky murder case....